Do I get miles for my flight?

Hey guys. I booked an AA flight via BA Avios for a flight JFK to CUN. I'd like to understand how miles are rewards. Here is the sequence of events:

1) Flight canceled due to blizzard. I called BA and the agent told me he booked me a seat that wasn't one for award flights. Would I have gotten avios miles for this segment?

2) AA asked for voluntary deboarding for the flight i was rescheduled on to take a later flight. I accepted a voucher and AA booked me into a later flight the same day in business class. I checked my confirmation w/ BA and as far as BA was concerned they still think I was on the flight with AA that they re-booked me on. Do I get miles with AA or BA for this flight I ended up on? Do I get extra miles since it's business class?

Just trying to get a better idea of how things work in the background. Thanks!

haha only asking because i read somewhere on boardingarea that rebooking tends to end up w/ miles

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It does. If you still have the BP stub for the flight you actually took you can try to claim the missing miles and there's a chance it will work. It tends to work better these days IME if you add the FF# during the trip rather than after the fact but retro claims still can work, too. Depends on the integration of the systems and what data is passed back and forth.

Hey guys. I booked an AA flight via BA Avios for a flight JFK to CUN. I'd like to understand how miles are rewards. Here is the sequence of events:

1) Flight canceled due to blizzard. I called BA and the agent told me he booked me a seat that wasn't one for award flights. Would I have gotten avios miles for this segment?

2) AA asked for voluntary deboarding for the flight i was rescheduled on to take a later flight. I accepted a voucher and AA booked me into a later flight the same day in business class. I checked my confirmation w/ BA and as far as BA was concerned they still think I was on the flight with AA that they re-booked me on. Do I get miles with AA or BA for this flight I ended up on? Do I get extra miles since it's business class?

Just trying to get a better idea of how things work in the background. Thanks!

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As to question #2, when AA rebooked you in a later flight in Business class, as Seth notes you may be able to get miles for that depending on how AA did the booking, and you may be able to get the extra "class of service" bonus as well if you were booked directly into Business. However, it might cause confusion if you try to get BA miles for the flight since BA apparently still thinks you were on the flight they booked you on, so you're unlikely to get them to credit two flights between the same cities on the same day. You ask whether you can get miles with AA or BA for the flight; I'd suggest trying to get the miles with AA rather than with BA if you have an account with AA.

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